Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1887-05-06
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SuxrLowRRs AS DIsNFEcTANrs.-Pi
,suuAowers sbous your house, not only
for the royal beauty Of their golden
blossoms, but because Of their healthful
Influences. Experiments IN France and
Holland. Gays good authority, have
shown that suhdowers. when planted
on az extensive scale, viii neutralize
the pernicious exhaiAtloss from marshes.
This plan has been tried with great sue
cess In The fenny. districts near Roche
fort, France, and the authorities OF
Holland assert that Intermittent fever
has wholly disappeared from the dis
tricss where sunfiowers have been
planted. Il is not yet determined what
effect the flower produces upon the
atmosphere--whether it generstes oxy-
gen. like other plants of rapid growth.
or whether. like The con5sre, it emits
ozone. and thus destroys the organic
germs OF missmas that produce fever.
Especially II you have marshy places
about your farm or house or other
buildings. plant sunfowers. The place
will look all the prettier for the pres
ence of these plants. with their orna-
mental foliage and stately flowers, and
you will have besides a good crop of
their useful seeds rs food for your poul-
try. Besides planting the ordinary
sunfio~er for IT'S healthful properties
and its seed, You can plant some beds Of
the new kinds, which are exceedingly
handsome, and will furnish you quite
purseful Of money II you ship their
finest blossoms to some New York for
ist, who will retail them on commission
or buy them outright from you. l add
This last advice AS another inducement
for the planting Of this flower.
FRUIT GROWING FOR WoNEN.-A Mas
sachusetts woman, having an hour or
two each day TO spare from Homework,
and wishing to earn little money, de-
cided TO, try raising strawberries for
market. Her piece OF lanc was fifty
seven feet long, and fifty-seven feet
wide. The plants were well taken care
of through the season, aud the last of
October the bed received a final hoeing.
and little later the plants were mulch
ed about two inches deep with pine
needles. Before the picking season
commenced, she bargaine1 with Il market
man, mile and half distant, to take
all her berries, by allowing him, as his
share, four cents basket for all berries
sold for twenty cents. and over, and
three cents tor those bringing less In
picking, she was careful to put in only
sound fruit, to have as large bel ries at
the bottom Of the basket as on top, and
to have them heaped rs high as the
crate would allow. 1t being poor
year for straw berries, owingsto drouth
which did not affect her low ground,
she received good prices. None were
sold for less than fifteen cents a basket
The entire crop sold was $50 baskets.
for which she received tifiytwo dollars
and eighty cents. Expenses were
twenty-one dollars and tifty-flve cents.
leavinga net profit of thirIy-one dollars
and twenty-five cents.
CLOVER AND TIMOTHY. -Cloyer anl
timothy are The main reliance Of most
farmers for meadows aud pastures, with
the hope that the natural grasses will
''come Ia" and take the place of :he
kinds sown when they die out, as they
often do, in few years. Glover scarcely
survives longer than two years, and the
timothy fingers along. gradually disap-
pearing, until In few years, on light
soils. 1t is all gone. Where the after
math Of timothy is not pastured of, the
roots will retain their hold on the soil
longer; but when the crowns are left
bare, II Is not uncopmon to see whole
field killed out In one winter. In very
rich ground clover may be depended
upon longer than for a second crop.
More hay can be had from the usual
clover and timothy than from any
other. The clover occupies the land
the first year almost exclusively; the
following year It becomes thinner, and
the timothy forms most of the crop each
year afterward. Then It's place is grad
ually taken by Red-top, Bluegrass, or
the more common wire grass natural to
all of the Eastern and Middle States.
LEMON SAUcE.-The juice Of large
lemon, one tablespoonful of corn-hour,
an ounce Of butter. q wineglass full of
sherry, and a gill of water. Mix the
eorn-four smoothly with water; add
the sugar, lemon juice and butter. Beat
the yolks Of eggs and mix them grad
ually with the rest. Let 1t come to just
within boiling point. II It boils It will
curdle, and the sauce be spoilt. Pour it
over the pudding just before serving.
IL the plum pudding Is considered the
king Of puddings, certainly this pudding
has claim to the title Of queen.
The seven-year-old son of q Boston
newspaper man has heard too much